I worked as a intern/aide for a defense contractor in the 1980's. I was paid $11/hour while the engineers I worked with were making about $25. It was a great experience. Of course, it was implied from the beginning that i would be offered a job when I graduated, and I was. The company I work for now has a couple interns. They are paid $16/hour. I guess it may uncommon except in the defense industry. We just add the interns pay onto the overhead for a project.

We have interns every semester at the mine. They usually make very little during their internship but after graduation they are usually hired as a boss and make around 70-80k. While this is a lot less than a union persons wage but they really don't ever actually do anything other than take the blame when something goes wrong. We usually just tell the new bosses and interns to just sit in the diner hole and don't touch anything and when the big boss calls underground brag to him how good he is.

bamapilot wrote:Come on Prop. Speak up. You didn't know Obama was a slave master, did you?

God bless them, if that's what they want.

Fools.

But you said:

The answer is to change the culture of those that run large corporations. It used to be that abusing foreigners was their limit, now they are willing to abuse their fellow citizens just to make a greater, even if infinitesimal amount, of profit.

So does Obama need to change the 'culture' of HIS Administration in this regard? If so, I hope you contact him, since you obviously feel strongly about this.

I hate to have to keep referring people who recount how wonderful their own internship turned out to be for their own career prospects to what this person said.

They were allowed to work; they were never paid; they were never promised a job; they would never be promised a job; and even when they went to another internship, the prospect of actually getting a paying job was the same: NONE!

As long as they didn't have to be paid, and didn't ask to be paid for fear of being let go for someone more starry-eyed and ignorant, they wouldn't have a paying job.

Why? Would you pay for labor when you had eager, ignorant young supplicants lining up to provide it to you for free?

Surely I am still grateful for the opportunity I had, because I learned a lot during the process. But, did I get paid for the work I did? No.

Did I work from 9 to 6 like the full-time staffers who were working there? Yes.

Was I offered a job after the internship? Definitely not.

After three months of my unpaid internship, I moved onto another internship position at a new place. Working full-time? Still yes. Paid? Still no. Prospective job offer? Probably not.

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bamapilot wrote:Come on Prop. Speak up. You didn't know Obama was a slave master, did you?

God bless them, if that's what they want.

Fools.

But you said:

The answer is to change the culture of those that run large corporations. It used to be that abusing foreigners was their limit, now they are willing to abuse their fellow citizens just to make a greater, even if infinitesimal amount, of profit.

So does Obama need to change the 'culture' of HIS Administration in this regard? If so, I hope you contact him, since you obviously feel strongly about this.

That wasn't me.

Don't get too excited. You make mistakes that way.

“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”― George W. Bush